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american military forces? plus, georgia judges clear the way for a special grand jury to help investigate if donald trump illegally pressured officials to overturn the election loss in that state. and president biden caught on a hot mike, this time, using the language to in sult a fox news reporter. the question, what did they discuss in the follow-up phone call? it s way too early for this. good morning. welcome to way too early the show knows all too well the dangers of a hot mic. i m jonathan le mire. we ll start with the news. the pentagon has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitch am has the details for us. reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden considering a major show of force near russia putting up to 8500 u.s. troops on heightened alert mostly as part of a nato response force. military action from russia ....
can all move on now. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 25th. with us we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico , jonathan lemire. and president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is with all of us this morning. i m in warsaw, poland, again this morning where there continues to be grave concern over what russia will do with its troops on the ukraine border. the pentagon says it has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, has the details. reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden centering a major show of force near russia, putting up to 8,500 u.s. troops on heightened alert, mostly as part of a nato force. military action could come at any time. reporter: the president at camp david this weekend, reviewing pentagon proposals to ....
additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security correspondent jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me this briefing but it seems to add up that maybe this is the strategy we had these briefings this is a briefing were over the last few days the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for invasion and then the ukraine russian president and now open briefing about troop deployment, is that the plan to deter putin with this media war in a sense? i don t know i would assess it ....
a message to vladimir putin not to move into any neighboring country. putin has not made a threat to neighboring nato countries and ukraine is not a member of nato. orders from our state department for u.s. embassy employees are evacuate ukraine. joining us, jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me, this briefing. it seems to add up to this is the strategy. is this the briefing war? we had the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for an invasion. be and knew really open briefings about troop deployments. is that the plan, to deter putin with a media war? i don t know that i would assess it that way. i think what you are seeing is these are right now reporters are getting indications from officials about how very serious the situation is right now in ukraine and the intelligence whether intelligence shared with britain or the five eyes. russiaam has 127,000 troops with more on its way to all sides of the border wit ....
additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security correspondent jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me this briefing but it seems to add up that maybe this is the strategy we had these briefings this is a briefing were over the last few days the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for invasion and then the ukraine russian president and now open briefing about troop deployment, is that the plan to deter putin with this media war in a sense? i don t know i would assess it ....